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Definitely can't begrudge Denmark for any parting shots at the Bombers. The guy was here for five years and played with ten different quarterbacks, with 3-5 of those QBs being complete no-hopers.

If it weren't for Denmark, Justin Goltz and Brian Brohm would have zero Bomber career highlights. Which kinda says it all. The one year that Denmark had a bona fide CFL passer for most of the games, he hit 1000 yards. Good luck to him, he was one of the few bright lights in a bunch of dismal seasons and I wish there was some way we could've kept him in Blue even after signing Smith and Dressler.

Doug Brown was right. Blue is for jerseys. Never for pants.

Drew Edwards reveals himself as a person of taste and distinction by agitating for a return to the Argos' boat logo. But he's wrong about the Als' duds. The Als look fantastic and didn't need to change. It's tricky to balance two primary colors like that on a jersey and not have it look busy or garish. (I am an expert about these things because my wife and I will spend hours customizing uniforms in Madden.)

Judging by what LaBatte was wearing on twitter, it looks like the Roughies will have a white pants option as well. They had players in all four looks: green/white, green/green, white/white, white/green. The all-green pajamas are bad enough, but all-white football uniforms are the worst. Damn, Greg Ellingson rocks that redblack casual outfit like a real model. I guess if football takes a bad turn for him, there's always the runway...

Yup, have this exact problem too. These royal blue unis are gorgeous. AND I TOTALLY CALLED THE BLUE SHOULDERS on the away jersey. I am never right at predicting things so this is exciting for me. All the teams look smart in their new uniforms. Glad to see a more classic look prevailing instead of piping and bibs and swooshes. Calgary and the Riders both look way better. I wish that Hamilton, Ottawa, and the Riders weren't rocking that onesie pajama look -- pants, jersey, helmet all the same color -- but what can you do? Love B.C.'s road outfit ... tramp stamp notwithstanding, the white breaks up the orange really nicely. Don't like their homes, though, that's a bit too much orange. Can't wait to see all these good-looking unis on the field -- bring on 2016!

Am I reading this right that you're cutting both of our national long snappers? I hope we don't have Wild long snapping again, that'd bone us on both defence and special teams if he gets dinged up. I would really like to see us start three international hogs, hold Keeping and Neufeld in reserve for the inevitable injuries, and not rush Couture. No way we'll get 18 games out of four Canadians playing three spots, especially when one of them is Neufeld. That'd mean a national receiver, field corner, or safety, I guess. (edit) Just read that Walters says we're planning on starting three national OL. http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Football/CFL/Winnipeg/2016/05/10/22632136.html

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Fantastic movie, my favorite superhero movie yet. They managed to cram a Wire-sized cast into a single movie, and everyone got featured somehow while not distracting from the core of the story with Cap, Bucky, and Tony. Cap macking on his girlfriend's niece was ... weird.

One of my favorite memories of Hefney as a Bomber, fireman-carrying JJ back to the bench in 2011 after a huge pick six. Loved that 2011 defence.

They are gonna pan down and we'll find out this is the road uniform ... it's just got shoulders in the home color, like the Eskimos' road jerseys do.

I'm liking what I'm hearing. I'm really pumped at the idea of a seasonal Star Trek anthology. 10-13 episodes is an ideal amount of time to tell a tight closed-ended story. And Bryan Fuller does good work.

Condolences to his family. He had some good games for us coming off the bench when Roy Dewalt couldn't get it done in 1988. He was actually our leading passer by yardage that year, but couldn't claim the job as his own. Then Salisbury got on a roll and the rest is history.

Not qualified to judge how the two of them compare as blockers or line captains but we sure lost a ton of hang time on the shotgun snaps when we went with Goossen...

... also signed three legit ratio changers as free agents in the past two years, guys who will give us a lot more flexibility to start internationals on the OL.

Recreational dope will be decriminalized and regulated nationwide in about a year, following up on a Liberal campaign promise. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/20/canada-legislation-decriminalize-recreational-cannabis-weed-marijuana Announced by the feds on 4/20. Well played, Mr. Trudeau.

<--- please please please make them look exactly like these. (If you're reading this on mobile, this post doesn't work. Sorry)

Yeah, Taynted is killin it these past few weeks. Just saw High on Fire for the first time live. Holy crap. Most crushing show I've seen in awhile. They've got the perfect metal combination of punishing heaviness and ninja fluidity. I got so caught up in it that I jumped in the pit. I'm a big guy, 6'0" and 220ish and still I got tossed around like a bottle on the ocean. So much fun. And I'm gonna get to see Voivod in a couple months! I've seen them a few times, but never as a headliner. Pumped for that.

Is it true that defensive players are instructed to headhunt the QB on a pick or a turnover? I seem to recall that Anthony Calvillo got totally creamed by a blindside block when he was cruising around pretending to play defence after he threw a pick.

I have heard that amphetamine usage in Major League Baseball has been pretty commonplace for a long time and I bet in other sports as well. Down here in the states it's easy as pie to get an ADD / ADHD diagnosis and a legal speed script. I'm not sure what the league can do, as it's regarded as legit therapy (though I gues other PEDs are legit therapies too) Speed: it's not just for kids anymore!

The United States does not have poor people. It has temporarily embarrassed millionaires. Regarding that long thing about Republican voters voting against their self-interest ... there was a revealing situation in Kentucky last November. First, some background: the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, expanded Medicaid coverage so that more people would receive it. Medicaid is basically government medical insurance, but it's means-tested so not everyone is eligible for it. Thanks to the weirdness and funding of American government, the federal and state governments share funding and control of Medicaid, and thus states could decline the expansion. Some Republican-led states did. However, Kentucky, one of the poorest states in the USA, did accept the Medicaid expansion. Then, last November, they elected a hardcore Tea Party guy as governor. During his campaign, the dude promised he would burn Obamacare out of his state (and throw the newly insured off the Medicaid rolls, though I don't think he ever spelled this out.) People were wondering, how did this guy get elected given the substantial number of people who were going to lose their insurance? There were a lot of them, maybe enough of them to decide the election. Studies showed that a lot of them didn't vote. They didn't show up to the polls. This may be because they're apathetic, or because of vote suppression. One of the Republican planks is that voting is too easy. Republican politicians are generally against early voting, mail-in voting, automatic voter registration, compulsory voting, absentee voting, Sunday voting, or anything else that drives up turnout. There's also a pattern of minority / non-Republican friendly voting areas receiving inadequate voting infrastructure that makes for long, discouraging lines and make it impossible for working people to vote without taking vacation or sick time (which a lot of working people in the USA simply don't have.) Anyway, just after he was sworn in, the Kentucky governor came around and decided not to get rid of Obamacare, but to tweak it somehow.

I am definitely pumped for No Man's Sky. It's weird that it's gonna be on the PS4, it doesn't seem like a console game at all. But I am a big nerd for space sims and I remember the dark times of the 2000s when no one could be bothered to make any, so anything that popularizes them is cool by me. Anyone out there into the turn-based 4x games? I've played a bunch of Galactic Civilizations 3 and I am really keen to see how Stellaris and the rebooted Master of Orion come out. Right now I'm learning to play Cities:Skylines. Trying to figure out how to make a beautiful city with no luck. All mine look like Charlie Brown's xmas tree. It's a golden age of PC gaming right now. Last generation I was totally a console guy but I'm not gonna even bother with an xbone or PS4 this time around. Everything I want to play is on Steam or Gog.

Denmark caught passes from Pierce, Brink, Goltz, Elliott, Hall, Brohm, Willy, Marve, and Davis. Not a lot of star power there, and only two of them are even still in the league. I'd rate TE above Denmark -- Edwards was productive even in games when he was the only decent receiver we could field and was perennially over 1000 yards.

My favorite Ricardo Montalban story: at one point he was the designated ethnic actor in LA -- if you needed to cast a role with any hint of melanin, whether it was Brazilian or Pakistani or Portuguese or Turkish or whatever, you probably cast him. So he was getting a lot of work and one night he wound up on a late night talk show along with a cowboy actor. He was talking in that super sexy rich accent of his, and the cowboy actor started teasing him about talking funny. "When you hear someone speak with an accent," Montalbahn replied, "that means they speak more than one language. How many languages do you speak?" Ever since then, if I hear someone speak with an accent, I think of that story.

In the USA, just like in Canada, your murderer is probably someone you know, most likely a family member. Spectacular mass killings like Sandy Hook where strangers kill a bunch of other strangers get all the news, but in terms of the number of dead, they're like 5% of the total last time I looked. The biggest thing you could do to solve the USA's gun violence problem would be to disarm domestic abusers. I would love to see the cops confiscate guns from anyone who is the subject of a spousal restraining order. I'm sure the mens' rights advocates would scream bloody murder about this but **** 'em.